3/29 Update: We've Moved!

Hope has been transferred from the CICU to the CCU, or Cardiac Care Unit, because she no longer requires as much constant monitoring from the staff. At this point, the issues that are keeping her from coming home are the fact that she is still requiring a bit of O2 to maintain high oxygen saturation levels (or sats) and the maybe-infected status of her incision. She began Keflex (an antibiotic) yesterday as a precaution and the site looks much, much better today. Perhaps they will keep her until she finishes her course of that antibiotic. On the O2 sats front, Mon actually was given the go-ahead to attempt nursing this afternoon -- another happy milestone, which went really, really well. Well for any baby, let alone a 'cardiac kid'. But, during that initial attempt, the nasal cannula kept getting in the way, so we just kind of put it on her head like a pair of sunglasses when they're not in use, and her sats stayed pretty much in the mid-90's. Not the 99-100 range that she can maintain on her current 1/4L O2, but much improved. The nurse was going to challenge her on room air after we left to eat with Nonna, Shane and Liv.